09.01.03 Saturday – Episode #64
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This Episode’s Show Notes by KD “Bubba” Martin:
- From Gitmo Nation East and West, it’s time for No Agenda!
- Adam has moved and set up a new studio, but KD’s download (Windows Media) sound is distorted at the beginning.
- Anyone else get better reception on downloads or real time play? Adam and John want to know.
- Silent computers are cool, according to John.
- Stock market questions from users.
- More ‘greener’ whining about hydro power, a major contributor to global warming?!? Propaganda from the oil industry?
- TV wants us to just eat oats. Green this!
- The shifting of the 10 yr. oscillation of the Pacific current has arrived, so get ready for global cooling.
- Don’t go to Yellowstone, there are 100 quakes a day!
- Zune bricked by leap second? Har.
- How about a job with the CIA? Here’s the commercial. Terrorist or Capt. Kirk? No problem.
- The CIA and Gina – here’s the (planted) story.
- The Gaza conflict and journalism. What’s the real story here, and which news source will you believe?
- John lets everyone know about Bloomberg. Now let’s hear about the new taxes.
- Sell the States, one by one, we’ll begin with Minnesota.
- The never ending search for carbon credits. What’s a tree worth in carbon credits?
Queue the closing credits — We hope you enjoy the show!
No Agenda
Running time: approx. 42 mins.
This thing is all screwed up. I pulled through itunes and ends at 42 min. Then I d’load directly and it reads on iPod as 42 minutes but it extends past 42 minutes, very strange.
Same here #1. The encode is screwed up, so every time you pause it it restarts at a different time mark well in advance of where you were listening.
Can’t say the audio quality of the new studio was very good either
What do carbon credits and the CIA have to do with each other anyways ?
So much for tree huggers and global warming
One of these days KDM is going to realise it should be ‘Cue the credits’.
The real time for the show was about 100 minutes.
Adam, it wasn’t the leap-second that blocked the Zunes, but the leap-day that we have every 4 years.
BTW Yo Agenda 64 “Fine Line” is out now.
find it at http://yoagenda.mevio.com or in Itunes and subscribe
This episode’s audio was terrible. John kept saying how good Adam sounded, but the audio file dl’d from iTunes was was awful: distorted, crackly, over-modulated, etc. Not sure why, but it was so bad I bailed before the end because it was so irritating to continue listening.
Downloaded the show as I always do via iTunes. Audio quality got better towards the end of the show but in the beginning it was horrible. As others have stated the time is off.
Although there is a problem with the audio and time the content of the episode was excellent as always.
“soh-VEH-toh“?? pokki-STAN and frawnce were bad enough, but “soh-VEH-toh“?? Soweto is an English abbreviation for “South Western Township”. No need to add an exotic faux European pronunciation.
And speaking of Caroline Kennedy and “uh”/ “you know”, I challenge anyone to count the number of “no, yeah” “yeah, no”, sputterings, and other non-communicative utterances in No Agenda.
Could be, but it’s short for ‘queue’. Just as ‘realise’ is an alternate spelling for ‘realize’.
From Merriam Webster:
Cue transitive verb 1 : queue 2 : to strike with a cue intransitive verb 1 : queue 2 : to use a cue
Tossed into Winamp. Play list info says 42:46, time remaining window says, 85:22. Sound quality is bad.
Interesting. I took the runtime directly from WMP, which said about 42 mins. How did you arrive at your number?
The carbon credit talk at the end interests me. I can imagine that shortly the state governments would recognize the value of a carbon credit, and start taxing the young, and otherwise unmarketable trees.
In my experience, if you have marketable timber land, you get taxed on the wood standing there. You can depreciate the taxable value by logging it.
If you are going to start a carbon farm, get in early before the tax vultures figure out the value of a given credit.
KDM Cue is not short for queue.
to cue (third-person singular simple present cues, present participle cueing, simple past and past participle cued)
1. The act of giving someone a cue signal.
Cue the cameraman, aand action!
Rolling credits is acceptable. Back in my youth I was in the TV broadcast business. The vacuum tube was still holding on. Before Chyrons, Vidifonts and other character generators, you typically had a drum on a stand. Around this drum you would wrap paper with the credits printed on it. When the time came, a studio camera would be pointed at the drum. Once the non-additive mix was set-up the director would say “Roll credits.” and someone would start turning a crank that would rotate the drum.
download on nokia podcast program goes over 42 min then end abruptly when dvorak explains Gaza Strip. Feel ripped off. Where do u get full episode. Adam sounds terrible wd distortion. Happy New Year
Man I suck!
I will excuse the growing pains on this weeks show. New studio and they are trying new things, which is good.
But the show better be great next week!
By the way I bought two T-shirts on Dec. 18th and still have not seen a shipping confirmation. Tomorrow will be Jan. 5th.
What gives?
The audio quality on this podcast is very bad. Doesn’t Adam listen to the MP3 before he posts it to the web?
Hmm, why does every instance of the word Dvorak in these comments show up in my browser outlined in orange?
* I like the tree-planting idea. Maybe you could buy/lease a few square miles of Brazilian rain forest and fence it off from developers, road builders, farmers, etc., or just devote it all to shade-grown fair trade coffee. That stuff fetches enough at the store that it should be profitable.
* Gee I hope the Yellowstone supervolcano doesn’t give off with the “Big Belch” as Garrison Keillor put it. We left Oregon, in part, because they’re about due for another “Big One” 8.0 to 9.0 earthquake with tsunami. I’d hate to think we didn’t move far enough away!
* I agree that Daylight Savings Time has gone too far — though it probably did save lots of energy before air conditioning became so widespread — but I think leap days and even leap seconds are a good idea. If we let our calendar get too far out of synch with the seasons, we may find ourselves having to adjust by two weeks all at once (as happened in the U.S. during George Washington’s lifetime).
* As for cue versus queue, I’d say how do the DJs spell it locally? (Of course, how long has it been since disk jockeys actually spun disks?) Perhaps, since they have that National Health, everybody in the U.K. has the time to tyupe wourds thaut aure fourty peurceunt lounger?
I think Adam Curry should be taken out and shot. (Now, I don’t REALLY want Adam to be shot, much as I hope he doesn’t REALLY want us Zune users to be shot.) I and my fellow Zune owners may not make up a large portion of your listening audience, but without my Zune, I would not be listening to your show. As much as you beg us to “tell a friend” to listen, how about not alienating us with stupid comments about how our choice of digital media device should lead to our being assassinated? Thanks.